She organized "training conferences" where she instructed her followers on how to hold press conferences, run phone banks, and infiltrate pro-E.R.A. organizations.
She grew up in colonial Nigeria, where she was instructed by British teachers.
She also doubles as Stéphane's arm candy at business functions, where she is instructed to put on a foreign accent when she has to speak.
I caught up with her at the Sandy Lodge Hotel, Newquay, where she was instructing a weekend course in the Cornish language.
In the production that opened Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, Callas is supposedly in an auditorium at the Juilliard School in the early 1970s, where she is instructing students on the art of performing opera.
Having her story broadcast regularly on major television networks over the last five years is a far cry, she recalls, from being banished to the home for unwed mothers, where she was instructed to use the back door and not to tell anyone her last name.
The comic had spent a week at a model school, where she was instructed that, in order to cultivate the right attitude for haute couture shows, she had to think: "If you can afford this, you're too fat to wear it, bitch".
"You know what it's like to watch a little girl get pushed down and shot point blank in the face while we're trying to save her?" Asked about McLaughlin's arrest, a spokeswoman for the Morton County sheriff's office said she "refused to cooperate during the intake and assessment" and was escorted into an "isolation cell" where she was instructed to lay on a jail mattress and change.
One woman said she was asked whether she had money, and upon answering 'no' she was instructed to sit outside where she watched "the women with money" walk past her to receive services (it is unclear in the transcript if this was an antenatal visit or for childbirth).
